The 'Orange Box' was released in 2007.. Where is Half Life 2 Episode 3 ?

I've just completed "The Orange Box" once again whilst taking a break from "The Witcher 2" and I was just wondering what's the real reason why "Half Life 2 Episode 3" is talking so long to reach gamers ?

It's been six years now since the release of "The Orange Box"!

Why so long for the next episode to this great franchise?

Valve has hit the jackpot with Steam. They don't need to make games anymore. Not AAA games anyway. Look at Activision with CoD, look at Blizzard, who haven't made a game for 6 years after hitting the jackpot with WoW. Steam is Valve's CoD.

Why bother investing on making new AAA games when people are already throwing money at you for a service where you do nothing but get a cut on other people's games?

My friend, you've illuminated me.

The German philosopher Schopenhauer compared the human race to a bunch of porcupines huddling together on a cold winters night. He said,The colder it gets outside, the more we huddle together for warmth; but the closer we get to one another, the more we hurt one another with our sharp quills. And in the lonely night of earths winter eventually we begin to drift apart and wander out on our own and freeze to death in our loneliness.

iampenguin

A quill plucked from a porcupine is not a porcupine.

Well, it's been six years between Half-Life and Half-Life 2. At that was in a time when Valve did nothing but develop Half-Life 2. Now Valve is a much bigger and more versatile company. They run Steam and now they're making a big push into the living room space, they're designing hardware such as the Steam Controller. They're also much more prolific in game releases than they've ever been pumping out at least one game every year.

I always suspected that Valve is doing Half-Life 3 on Source 2 which is causing an even prolonged development time. Now I also believe that all of these recent announcements are affecting it as well. It might very well turn out that Valve is saving Half-Life 3 to launch alongside SteamOS and Steam Machines as a Steam exclusive and as such a bonafide killer app.

Valve has hit the jackpot with Steam. They don't need to make games anymore. Not AAA games anyway. Look at Activision with CoD, look at Blizzard, who haven't made a game for 6 years after hitting the jackpot with WoW. Steam is Valve's CoD.

Why bother investing on making new AAA games when people are already throwing money at you for a service where you do nothing but get a cut on other people's games?

Black_Knight_00

Valve is like the George RR Martin of the gaming industry. And then when you see them release other stuff while waiting for that sequel you're like, "damn you!...this is pretty good...but damn you, anyway!"

I can only think of three complete games that are good from Valave and even then I would not put them in the top end games.

I have less trust in vlave than EA, Capcom and Sega.

Because Valve hates money.

Valve has hit the jackpot with Steam. They don't need to make games anymore. Not AAA games anyway. Look at Activision with CoD, look at Blizzard, who haven't made a game for 6 years after hitting the jackpot with WoW. Steam is Valve's CoD.

Why bother investing on making new AAA games when people are already throwing money at you for a service where you do nothing but get a cut on other people's games?

Black_Knight_00

Because i'm sure a pretty clever company like Valve will realise that well will eventually run dry.

[QUOTE="Black_Knight_00"]

Valve has hit the jackpot with Steam. They don't need to make games anymore. Not AAA games anyway. Look at Activision with CoD, look at Blizzard, who haven't made a game for 6 years after hitting the jackpot with WoW. Steam is Valve's CoD.

Why bother investing on making new AAA games when people are already throwing money at you for a service where you do nothing but get a cut on other people's games?

Ilovegames1992

Because i'm sure a pretty clever company like Valve will realise that well will eventually run dry.

[QUOTE="Ilovegames1992"]

[QUOTE="Black_Knight_00"]

Valve has hit the jackpot with Steam. They don't need to make games anymore. Not AAA games anyway. Look at Activision with CoD, look at Blizzard, who haven't made a game for 6 years after hitting the jackpot with WoW. Steam is Valve's CoD.

Why bother investing on making new AAA games when people are already throwing money at you for a service where you do nothing but get a cut on other people's games?

Black_Knight_00

Because i'm sure a pretty clever company like Valve will realise that well will eventually run dry.

In other words, they won't be making Half-Life 3 until they run out of steam.

[QUOTE="Black_Knight_00"][QUOTE="Ilovegames1992"]

Because i'm sure a pretty clever company like Valve will realise that well will eventually run dry.

capaho

In other words, they won't be making Half-Life 3 until they run out of steam.

[QUOTE="capaho"]

[QUOTE="Black_Knight_00"] That's exactly what I'm saying: why make Half-Life 3 now when you are making money from Steam? Save Half-Life 3 for when your current meal ticket fails.Black_Knight_00

In other words, they won't be making Half-Life 3 until they run out of steam.

Unused bullets can become worthless.

[QUOTE="Ilovegames1992"]

[QUOTE="Black_Knight_00"]

Valve has hit the jackpot with Steam. They don't need to make games anymore. Not AAA games anyway. Look at Activision with CoD, look at Blizzard, who haven't made a game for 6 years after hitting the jackpot with WoW. Steam is Valve's CoD.

Why bother investing on making new AAA games when people are already throwing money at you for a service where you do nothing but get a cut on other people's games?

Black_Knight_00

Because i'm sure a pretty clever company like Valve will realise that well will eventually run dry.

Risky though. Surely by that time it will reach Duke Nukem levels and sorely disappoint. 

Risky though. Surely by that time it will reach Duke Nukem levels and sorely disappoint. Ilovegames1992

On top of what everyone else has said, remember that Valve at some point forgot how to count to three. They remembered for the announcements, but it's a slow process. :(MAILER_DAEMON

Because Half Life 1 and 2 were so monumental, it creates an unmanagable amount of pressure for the 3rd.